" Alfred singled out in particular the laws that he " found in the days of Ine, my kinsman, or Offa, king of the Mercians, or King Æthelbert of Kent, who first among the English people received baptism.

* 1640 – ( baptism date ) – Aphra Behn, English playwright and novelist ( d. 1689 )

Greek words have been widely borrowed into other languages, including English: mathematics, physics, astronomy, democracy, philosophy, thespian, athletics, theatre, rhetoric, baptism, evangelist etc.

This is the essential significance of the Lutheran non-sacramental ceremony called in German " Konfirmation ," but in English " affirmation of baptism " ( see Confirmation ( Lutheran Church )).

* March 7 – John Wilbye, English composer ( date of baptism ) ( d. 1638 )

* April 18 – ( baptism ) Thomas Middleton, English playwright ( d. 1627 )

* March 25 – ( baptism ) – John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader ( d. 1444 )

I: Christ's incarnation, childhood, baptism, temptation, transfiguration, works and miracles, ( English trans from German ).

Richard Deane ( 1610 – 1653 ), English General at Sea, major-general and regicide, was a younger son of Edward Deane of Temple Guiting or Guyting in Gloucestershire, where he was born, his baptism taking place on 8 July 1610.

In English, it is called " affirmation of baptism ", and is a mature and public profession of the faith which " marks the completion of the congregation's program of confirmation ministry ".

A single godparent was retained in baptism at Geneva and among French Calvinists, but some followers of Calvin, most notably in Scotland and eventually the English colonies in America, rejected them altogether.

The Church of England retained godparents in baptism, formally removing the marriage barriers in 1540, but the issue of the role and status of godparents continued to be debated in the English Church.

In his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Bede writes that " For all the time that Edwin reigned, the sons of the aforesaid Etheifrid, who had reigned before him, with many of the nobility, lived in banishment among the Scots or Picts, and were there instructed according to the doctrine of the Scots, and received the grace of baptism.

The Manor of Gogarth ( which included all three townships ) had been bestowed on Anian, Bishop of Bangor by King Edward I in 1284 in recognition of services rendered to the crown, notably the baptism of the first English Prince of Wales, newly born at Caernarfon.

Because of his father's prominence he was godson of English queen Philippa of Hainault, who held him in her arms during his baptism.

Nothing less than the legitimacy of English Christendom rested on Englishmen's steadfastness on certain fundamental Christian beliefs and practices, like, for example, knowledge of Christ's life and passion, memorization of the Pater Noster and the Apostles ' Creed, proper baptism, and the correct date and method of celebrating Easter mass.

Open debate amongst the émigrés, and close contact and interaction with earlier English exiles and continental Protestants, led the congregation to question the meaning and practice of baptism, among other things.

Institutionalized Dutch baptism stood for a model for both English and American Baptists.

His contributions to theological literature included treatises on Christian ethics and dogmatics, on moral philosophy, on baptism, and a sketch of the life of Jakob Boehme, who exercised so marked an influence on the mind of the great English theologian of the 18th century, William Law.

Limbo is a theory that unbaptized but innocent souls, such as those of infants, virtuous individuals who lived before Jesus Christ was born on earth, or those that die before baptism must wait before going to heaven.

Apollos only knew of the baptism of John which suggests, as is reflected in Acts, that consistent baptismal practice was still developing in the nascent church.

But the right baptism of Christ, which is preceded by teaching and oral confession of faith, I teach, and say that infant baptism is a robbery of the right baptism of Christ ...

Adoptionism, sometimes called dynamic monarchianism, is a minority Christian belief that Jesus was adopted as God's Son either at his baptism, his resurrection, or his ascension.

Ehrman uses this omission to support the notion that the title " Son of God " is not used of Jesus until his baptism, and that Mark reflects an adoptionist view.

However, in the Byzantine and other Eastern rites, whether Eastern or Oriental Orthodox or Eastern Catholic, chrismation is done immediately after baptism, and thus the priest is the one who confirms, using chrism blessed by a bishop.

In some traditions, baptism is also called christening, but for others the word " christening " is reserved for the baptism of infants.

The word " baptism " or " christening " is sometimes used to describe the inauguration of certain objects for use.

The fact of having been baptized remains a fact and the Catholic Church holds that baptism marks a person with a lasting seal or character that " is an ontological and permanent bond which is not lost by reason of any act or fact of defection.

Martin Luther taught that baptism was necessary for salvation, but modern Lutherans and other Protestants tend to teach that salvation is a gift that comes to an individual by God's grace, sometimes defined as " unmerited favor ", even apart from baptism.

" Our baptism ," wrote Eddy, " is purification from all error ... Our Eucharist is spiritual communion with the one God.

The first event in West Saxon history, the date of which can be regarded as reasonably certain, is the baptism of Cynegils, which occurred in the late 630s, perhaps as late as 640.

* Baptismal font, a container for holy water used in the Christian ceremonial of baptism

The use of a bath in religious ritual or ceremonial rites include immersion during baptism in Christianity and to achieve a state of ritual cleanliness in a mikvah in Judaism.

Some events where ceremonial clothing would be worn include baptism, graduation, marriage, and mourning.

Those Protestants who do believe in the importance of a future rebuilt temple ( viz., some dispensationalists ) hold that the importance of the sacrificial system shifts to a Memorial of the Cross, given the text of Ezekiel Chapters 39 and following ( in addition to Millennial references to the Temple in other Old Testament passages ); since Ezekiel explains at length the construction and nature of the Millennial temple, in which Jews will once again hold the priesthood ; some others hold that perhaps it was not completely eliminated with Jesus ' sacrifice for sin, but is a ceremonial object lesson for confession and forgiveness ( somewhat like water baptism and Communion are today ); and that such animal sacrifices would still be appropriate for ritual cleansing and for acts of celebration and thanksgiving toward God.

* Affusion, a form of Christian baptism where water is poured over the head

Citing instances in the Book of Acts where believers were Spirit baptized before they were baptized with water, most Pentecostals believe a Christian need not have been baptized in water to receive Spirit baptism.

After her abdication the queen came to reside in Rome, where she was confirmed in her baptism by the Pope, in whom she found a generous friend and benefactor, on Christmas Day, 1655.

Credobaptists would admit that infants are in need of salvation but paedobaptists push the point a step further by arguing that it makes no theological sense for infants to need salvation but for God to make no provision for them to be saved ( See 1 Cor 7: 14 where Paul says that the children of a believer are holy-separated-and therefore, perhaps, would not need baptising even if baptism saved ).

Baptism received by adults or younger people who have reached the age of accountability where they can make a personal religious decision is referred to as believer's baptism among conservative or evangelical Protestant groups.

As General Paul Vanuxem, a French veteran of the Indochina War, wrote in 1972 after visiting the liberated city of An Loc: " An Loc was the Verdun of Vietnam, where Vietnam received as in baptism the supreme consecration of her will.

Immersion ( or aspersion or affusion ) of a person in water is a central sacrament of Christianity ( where it is called baptism ); it is also a part of the practice of other religions, including Islam ( Ghusl ), Judaism ( mikvah ) and Sikhism ( Amrit Sanskar ).

Unlike in the western Churches ( e. g., Roman Catholic and Anglican ), where confirmation is typically reserved to those of " the age of reason ", chrismation in the Eastern Churches, ( including Eastern Rite Catholic Churches ), is ordinarily administered immediately after baptism, most commonly infant baptism, and immediately ( or at least shortly ) before one's first reception of Holy Communion.

His last appearance in the historical record that has been located is on May 4, 1889, where Emiliano Leiva is listed as a Padrino at the baptism of his sister, Victoria Leiva's, first child ( Iglesia Católica, 1889 ).

In 1836, he moved from Kirtland to Nauvoo, Illinois, where he participated in the temple ordinance of baptism for the dead.

Anglicans are unique in Christianity in that only bishops may administer confirmation, unlike the Roman Catholic Church where, in the Latin Rite, confirmation conferred by a priest is valid " if he has the faculty to do so, either from the general law or by way of a special grant from the competent authority ", and, in the Eastern Rites, confirmation is usually administered by a priest immediately after baptism, as is the practice also of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

This could only be experienced however, if one had received the baptism in the Holy Spirit which was an experience subsequent to salvation where the believer was cleansed from his or her original sin that had been passed on to all men through Adam.

In 1907 at the general convocation held in Jackson, MS, a great debate occurred where Jones and Jeter rejected Mason's teaching on the baptism in the Holy Spirit with speaking in tongues as the initial evidence.

The anointing served as a reminder of the baptism of Clovis I in Reims in 496, where the ceremony was finally transferred in 816.

Rather, the church believes that baptism is the first step in church membership, where the parents make a profession of faith on behalf of the infant in the hope that their child will later confirm that profession at or around the age of 13.

The United Church practices infant baptism, but in cases where a person was not baptised as an infant, baptism can be performed at any age.

Olof was baptised in Husaby, probably by the missionary Sigfrid, c. 1008, At Husaby church, there is sign at Husaby Honor his baptism and what is thought to be the well at the Holy spring where Olaf was baptised.

Published in 1680, under the title ' An Orthodox Catechism ', it was identical in content to the Heidelberg catechism, with exception to questions regarding baptism, where adult immersion was defended against infant baptism and the other modes of affusion and aspersion.

Therefore, in cases where the validity of a baptism is in doubt, a " conditional " baptism may be performed.